Best Dive Centers in Phuket – Diving in Phuket

Sea Bees Diving

Chalong Bay

Sea Bees Diving has been operating an award-winning dive resort for over twenty years. As an SSI Diamond Instructor Dive Center, they offer a full range of premium quality dive courses and excursions. The dive centres and outlets are located in the best dive destinations in Southern Thailand. Combined with a custom-built fleet of dive boats and dive resorts in Khao Lak and Phuket, they offer a good overall dive experience. All locations offer dive experiences that showcase the fascinating underwater world of the Andaman Sea.

Sea Bees Diving

Sea Bees Diving

Sea Bees Diving

Daytrips

Everyday to nearby dive sites: 4,000 baht for 2 dives, 4,800 for 3 dives and 5,800 for 4 dives

Sea Bees Diving

• Location: 1/3 Moo 9 Viset Road Chalong, Phuket 83130, Thailand
• Phone: 076 381765
• Website: https://sea-bees.com

Local Dive Thailand

Patong Beach

Local Dive Thailand is one of the longest-running dive centres in Phuket. They run day trips to all the top dive spots every day of the year on their own dive boat with a maximum group size of 4 divers to 1 guide. They offer all PADI courses from Discover Scuba Diving, Open water and Advanced plus all specialities to start any day of the week. Being an international dive school they offer all courses in most languages and many liveaboard trips to the Similan Islands and the world-famous Richelieu Rock.

Prices for most popular scuba courses

• Discover Scuba Diving: 4,500 baht (1st-time divers, full day on a dive boat in shallow bays with coral reefs)
• PADI Open Water: 14,500 all-inclusive (3 days including pool, class, and 2 days diving).
• Advanced Open Water: 12,500 baht (self-study + 2 days diving around Phuket). Deep diving, Wreck diving, Search and Recovery, Underwater photography.
• Snorkelling Full Day by Speedboat: 2,200 baht per person

Local Dive Thailand

• Location: (Next to Starbucks and Baanthai Beach Resort)
  94/1 Thaweewong Rd, Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand 83150
• Phone: 098 670 8313
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: localdivethailand.com

Oceanic Dive Center

Kata Beach

Oceanic Dive Center was founded in Kata in 1999. Since then, the ownership has changed only two times and the current owners are still in close touch with the original management team. The current owners, a UK husband and wife team, have been active dive instructors in Phuket since 2007, and have run Oceanic since 2010. It’s this continuity that fosters loyalty in our divers who are more like club members than customers.

Oceanic Dive Center

Oceanic Dive Center

Oceanic Dive Center

Oceanic Dive Center is a registered dive centre under both PADI and SSI, and offer the full range of scuba diving courses for all levels. As instructors themselves, they are able to recognise the best instructors so that students get the best possible experience, what ever level, of course, they are doing. For fun divers, they offer day trips and liveaboards to the best dive sites around Phuket on the best dive boats available. They are not tied to a single equipment manufacturer, so if you want to upgrade your dive gear, or if you’re buying your first set, they can offer impartial, honest advice, based on using the gear in the real world.

Prices for most popular scuba courses

Discover Scuba Diving: prices from 2,500 Baht to 4,900 Baht
Open Water Diver: from 10,900 Baht to 15,900 Baht
Advanced Open Water: from 12,900 Baht to 14,900 Baht
Specialities: start at 5,400 Baht

Oceanic Dive Center

• Location: 143/3 Patak Rd, Tambon Karon, Amphoe Mueang Phuket, Chang Wat Phuket 83100, Thailand
• Phone: 076 333 043
• Website: https://www.oceanicdivecenter.com – https://www.facebook.com/oceanicdivecenterphuket/

No Gravity Dive Center

Chalong Bay

No Gravity Dive Center is a family-run business in Chalong area and an authorized PADI Dive Center open since 2007 with a small team of experienced and friendly instructors. No Gravity Dive Center offers PADI Dive Courses up to the professional level, Discover Scuba Diving Programs for first-time divers as well as live-aboard trips to the Similan or day trips to the most famous dive sites around Phuket. All programs are in small groups or private classes for maximum safety and fun

No Gravity Dive Center

No Gravity Dive Center

No Gravity Dive Center

PADI Course Rates:
Discover Scuba Diving, prices from 1,900 Baht to 5,000 Baht
Open Water Diver from 10,900 Baht to 15,900 Baht
Advanced Open Water from 10,900 Baht to 12,900 Baht
Rescue Diver from 8,900 Baht to 10,900 Baht
Divemaster 35,000 Baht
Specialities start at 4,000 Baht

Scuba Diving Day Trips:

Beach Dives from 1,600 Baht
2 Dive Trips from 2,900 Baht
3 Dive Trips from 4,000 Baht

Similan Liveaboard Trips:

2 Days/1 night 13,900 Baht
3 Days/3 Nights from 16,300 Baht
4 Days/4 Nights from 20,900 Baht

No Gravity Dive Center

• Location: Chalong, Mueang Phuket District, Phuket 83000, Thailand
• Phone: 087 999 1278
• Website: http://bestdivingphuket.com/

SSS Phuket Dive & Surf Center

Karon Beach

SSS Phuket Dive, Freedive & Surf Center is an SSI & PADI Dive Center offering training and courses from beginners to all professional levels.

SSS Phuket offers other courses such as snorkelling, surfing & paddleboarding. These courses and services are provided by certified and qualified instructors from SSS Phuket.

SSS Phuket Dive & Surf Center

SSS Phuket Dive Center

SSS Phuket Dive Center

Prices

Discover Scuba Diving: 2,500 Baht to 4,500 Baht
Open Water: 9,900 Baht to 13,900 Baht
Advanced Open Water from 12,500 Baht
3 Dives Day Trip: 3,900 Baht
PADI Freediver course: 7,900 Baht to 9,900 Baht
PADI Advanced Freediver course: 12,900 Baht

SSS Phuket Dive & Surf Center

• Location: 40/14 Kata Rd, Tambon Karon, Amphoe Mueang Phuket, Chang Wat Phuket 83100, Thailand
• Phone: 089 586 9920
• Website: https://www.sssphuket.com – https://www.facebook.com/sssphuket/

Phuket Scuba Club

Chalong Bay

Phuket Scuba Club started in 1997 by an enthusiastic married couple who came to Thailand to pursue their dreams. Personalised service and family orientated, professional PADI diver education, equipment sales, 1/2 day, night dives and daily dive tours, Liveaboard cruises and private charters.

Phuket Scuba Club

Phuket Scuba Club

Phuket Scuba Club

• Location: Shanti Lodge Guest House in Chalong. 1/2 Soi Bangrae Chaofa West, Ao Chalong, Muang, Phuket 83130
• Phone: 076 600 263
• Website: www.phuket-scuba-club.com – https://www.facebook.com/PhuketScubaClub/

H2O Sportz

Bangtao Beach

H2O Sportz PADI is a 5 Star Dive Centre established in Bangtao area since 1990. They provide a selection of joined and private half and full-day dive tours in the north of the Phuket. Their best half-day tour dive site is a local Island called Koh Waeo (Paradise Island). Getting a PADI certification can, therefore, go smoothly and in a short time without having to travel to other islands. The location of H2O Sportz is convenient as they are close to all the marinas, able to supply equipment rental and Dive Master to any yacht charter.

• Location: 121, Si Sunthon, Thalang District, Phuket 83110
• Phone: 081 891 6596
• Website: http://www.h2osportzphuket.com

Merlin Divers

Kamala Beach

Merlin Divers is an SSI Dive Center established in Kamala since 2000. They provide dive tours to the best dive sites in the Andaman Sea like the sites in the Similan and Phi Phi islands national parks, the islands of Racha Noi and Yai and to the marine sanctuary with King Cruiser Wreck, Shark Point and Anemone Reef. Their unique trip is a half-day trip with 2 dives – morning or afternoon – along the west coast of Phuket. With just under 5 hours on the sea, they offer the shortest dive trip with 2 dives on Phuket.

Merlin Divers offers the full range of scuba diving courses, from the beginner course called’ Open Water’, up to the professional courses called ‘Dive Guide’ and ‘Divemaster’.

Merlin Divers is one of the biggest retailers of snorkelling and diving equipment on the island of Phuket. As an Aqua Lung Partner Center, they offer the full range of Aqua Lung products.

Location: 74/3 Moo 3 Rim Hat Road, Kamala, Kathu District, Phuket 83150
Phone: 073 385518
Website: https://phuket-diving-thailand.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MerlinDiversPhuket